I am greatly concerned about the steady erosion of the America I was born into and the polarization of society. I used to think liberals were a healthy balance to our culture and now I see what they have done to America and other cultures throughout the world. I fear we are at the doorstep of another civil war and it will be a repeat of the Weimar Republic where conservative Christian capitalist battled Socialist unionist through the streets of Germany for years.

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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Who Is The War Criminal ?

Aljazeera News tells us more of whats happening in the world than our own MSM. While we and our allies are busy putting our service men in prison for alleged war crimes, the Taliban is slowly retaking Afghanistan.
Where is the real war crime here ? Is it worse to shoot an enemy combatant who two witnesses say was already dead or to give a country back to our enemies when 3,389 US soldiers and allies died trying to give it a chance for freedom ?

"A British soldier has been found guilty of murdering an injured
Taliban fighter in Afghanistan by shooting him in the chest, a British
court martial board has found.
The Royal Marine who may be facing life in prison as a result of
Friday's decision told fellow soldiers to hush the incident up and
acknowledged "I just broke the Geneva Convention'' as he carried out the
act, prosecutors said.
The board ruled that the commando, who can only be identified as
"Marine A", was guilty of killing the unnamed man in Helmand Province in
September 2011.
Prosecutors said the incident took place after the military base was
attacked by two fighters. A helicopter opened fire in response, and
Marine A, together with two other British soldiers, then discovered the
injured Afghan in a field.
The three moved the man to a sheltered area. Marine A shot the Afghan
with a nine millimetre pistol, before quoting a phrase from Shakespeare
as the man died before him, according to prosecutors.
"Shuffle off this mortal coil [expletive]. It's nothing you wouldn't
do to us," the marine was heard saying in a video that captured the
incident. The footage was inadvertently recorded by a camera mounted on
the helmet of Marine B.
The soldiers told their superiors that the man had died from wounds,
but the killing came to light when police investigating other matters
found the video on a soldier's laptop. Footage was shown at the court
martial.
The three denied murdering the Afghan, and one marine had said he believed the man was already dead.
But a seven-member board convicted Marine A after a two-week trial.
The two other marines were acquitted of "encouraging and assisting" in
the killing.
British forces have been fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan
alongside other international forces since 2001 though coalition forces
are set to leave the country soon.Spike in Afghan troop deaths
Meanwhile, a new US Pentagon report shows that the number of Afghan
forces killed in combat has risen by 80 percent over the summer while
coalition deaths dropped by almost 60 percent during the same six-month
period.
The drop in US and coalition casualties reflects the Afghans'
increased role in fighting as well as the ongoing decrease in the number
of international forces in the country. As of this week, there are
about 48,000 US troops in Afghanistan, down from a peak of slightly more
than 100,000 in 2010.
Afghan forces now conduct 95 percent of conventional operations and 98 percent of special operations in Afghanistan.
Coalition forces continue to provide training and assistance and are
still needed for air support, security, route clearance for roadside
bombs, airlift for wounded or dead troops and counterterrorism
operations.
A report said the Afghans, while gaining
capabilities are far from being able to sustain the needed force in
combating Taliban fighters, who are gaining ground in rural areas where
their group had previously held power. "http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/11/uk-soldier-found-guilty-afghan-murder-2013118223059796363.html

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